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unusual facts about Cartel


King Size Terror

Later Karakan became part of the first successful project of Turkish Hip Hop: Cartel.


Adam Remmele

He rose quickly through the ranks and in 1900, he became the chairman of the local union cartel in Ludwigshafen.

Administrative Department of Security

It was also the second time the cartel attempted to kill DAS director Miguel Maza Márquez using an explosive device; the first attack on May 30, 1989 left four dead and 37 wounded.

Amcor

In December 2004, the CEO, Russell Jones, resigned on the request of the board after press reports revealed that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission was investigating the company for engaging in cartel practices.

Aurelio Cano Flores

As a policeman, Cano Flores was able to recruit several of his colleagues to the Gulf Cartel, where they collected the organization's drug proceeds and protected the drug shipments that headed to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Banda el Recodo

According to the 2013 court testimonies of the drug lord Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar (alias El Mamito), Banda el Recodo performed at several private parties held by leaders of Los Zetas drug cartel for a sum of US$250,000.

Blic

Knežević also claimed that the cigarette cartel also poses a security threat to Boris Tadić and that even Croatian president Stipe Mesić gave Tadić documents during their meeting in Sofia on April 25, 2009 warning him of possible attacks on him.

Cali Cartel

Later Cali cartel principals included the son of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, Jorge Alberto Rodriguez, as well as Hélmer Herrera, Jairo Ivan Urdinola Grajales, Julio Fabio Urdinola Grajales, Henry Loaiza Ceballos, Victor Patiño-Fomeque, Phanor Arizabaleta-Arzayus, Raul Grajales Lemos, Luis Grajales Posso, Bernardo Saenz, Juan Carlos Ortiz Escobar, Javier Marlin Rojas, and James Andrae.

Carlos Lehder

Other major Medellín cartel associates fled to the protection of Manuel Noriega in Panama, but when Pablo Escobar discovered Noriega was plotting to betray him to the U.S. in return for amnesty, the cartel associates then fled to Nicaragua to seek the assistance of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega.

Charles Powers

He played a key role in preparing the prosecution in the Coal Vend cases, arising out of prosecutions brought by then Attorney-General of Australia Billy Hughes against a coal industry cartel.

Dojin-kai

Noted for his extraordinary facial resemblance to Heriberto Lazcano, the second-generation leader of the Los Zetas Mexican drug cartel.

Edgar Valdez Villarreal

According to Mexican media reports, shortly after the death of the cartel's leader, Arturo Beltrán Leyva on December 16, 2009, Valdez began to dispute the cartel's leadership and its territory; one faction was led by Valdez and Gerardo Alvarez-Vazquez, while the other is led by Arturo's brother Héctor Beltrán Leyva and his lieutenant Sergio Villarreal Barragán.

El Cartel

El Cartel is a name mainly used by Daddy Yankee.

Eric Angle

In August 2003, Angle returned to wrestling in a local Pittsburgh independent promotion, International Wrestling Cartel (IWC).

Ethisterone

Ethisterone was also marketed in the U.S. from the 1950s into the 1960s under a variety of trade names by other pharmaceutical companies that had been members of the pre-World War II European hormone cartel (Ciba, Organon, Roussel).

Fabio Ochoa

Fabio Ochoa Vásquez (born 1957), son, convicted drug trafficker and former ranking member of the Medellín Cartel

George Enrique Herbert

Jorge Manuel Torres Teyer and Victor Manuel Adan Carrasco, leaders of the Juarez Cartel in Belize and the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, with whom Herbert conspired, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court in 2003, and were sentenced in May 2004.

Gérald Tremblay

During a hearing at the Charbonneau Commission on October 1, 2012, construction industry contractor Lino Zambito alleged that Tremblay's party, Union Montreal received a sum equivalent to 3% of the value of sewerage rehabilitation contracts awarded by the City of Montreal to a mafia-linked cartel.

German hip hop

A Turkish-German vernacular has developed, employing phrases such as the racist German term “Kanak Sprak” – or “nigga speak” – and using Turkish imagery, such as one group, Cartel, which featured the Turkish flag on the cover of their album.

Honor Bright

Their musical style has drawn comparisons to bands like Taking Back Sunday, Cartel, Mayday Parade, early Fall Out Boy as well as Cher, Nickleback, and Metallica.

Illegal drug trade in Colombia

The cartel is believed to have employed the services of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), a right-wing paramilitary organization internationally classified as a terrorist organization, to protect the cartel’s drug routes, its drug laboratories, and its members and associates.

Indépendance Cha Cha

The song itself was an appeal for unity in the post-independence Congo, both through its combined use of the languages of Belgian and French Congos, as well as the appeal for unity amongst Congolese political factions, including Asoreco, ABAKO, CONAKAT, Cartel, Front Commun, MNC, PDC, UGECO, ABAZI and PSA which all participated in the Round Table talks and which are all explicitly mentioned in the song.

Juan Mejía González

In the late 1990s, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former leader of the Gulf cartel, had other similar groups besides Los Zetas established in several cities in Tamaulipas.

Kenny Gallo

Gallo also appears on the Discovery Channel show Flipped: A Mobster Tells All Kenny "Kenji" Gallo and Spike TV's Deadliest Warrior, where he served as an expert for the Medellin Cartel in "Somali Pirates vs. Medellin Cartel."

Khotan Fernández

In 2006 Khotan was back in Mexico for the role of "Sergio" in Corazón Partido, a Telemundo and Argos telenovela, in the same year he also starred as "Caronte" in the movie El Cartel.

Knights Templar Cartel

On 17 March 2012 in the state of Guanajuato, the Knights Templar Cartel put up several banners on bridges welcoming the Pope Benedict XVI, and pledging to not provoke any violent acts during the pope's visit.

La Familia Michoacana

The governor's half-brother Julio César Godoy Toscano, who was elected July 5, 2009 to the lower house of Congress, was accused to be a top-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel and of providing political protection for the cartel.

Luis Fernando Sánchez Arellano

Following the death or arrest of the Arellano Félix family members, and especially following the arrest of his uncle Eduardo Arellano Félix on October 25, 2008, Luis Fernando Sánchez took the cartel leadership, probably in partnership with his mother Enedina Arellano Félix.

Norte del Valle Cartel

The consequences of such an internal vendetta led Colombian authorities to intervene in order to increase law enforcement efforts against the cartel, which resulted in the 2004 arrest of some 100 assassins in the employ of both rival factions, and in the 2005 capture of Varela's close associate Julio César López (alias "Ojitos", or "Small Eyes"), and Montoya's chief hatchetman, Carlos José Robayo Escobar (alias "Guacamayo", or "Macaw"), among others.

Due to their violent warfare that left more than 1,000 people dead between 2003 and 2004, the Colombian government with support of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), FBI, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have pursued the cartel heavily for over four years.

Out for a Kill

Yin Quinshi (Dave Wong) of Sofia, Bulgaria, controls an Eastern European drug cartel.

Rafael Cárdenas Vela

After the death of his uncle, Antonio Cárdenas Guillén (a.k.a. Tony Tormenta) in 5 November 2010, infightings within the Gulf Cartel triggered, and Cárdenas Vela faced problems with Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez (a.k.a. El Coss) and other Gulf cartel members, who at one time worked along his uncle Osiel Cárdenas Guillén.

The death of his uncle Antonio on November 2010 created an internal division in the Gulf Cartel, but Cárdenas Vela managed to become the regional boss of the cartel in Matamoros on March 2011.

Romanian hip hop

The divergence between east coast hip hop and west coast hip hop was soon imported into Romania with the creation of the Cartel ("Cartelul") representing the west coast with groups like B.U.G. Mafia, La Familia, Il-Egal, Dana Marijuana, Don Baxter and of RANS - "The Cry of National Agony - Syndicate" ("Răcnetul Agoniei Naționale - Sindicat") representing the east coast with groups like R.A.C.L.A., Da Hood Justice, Ghetto Dacii, Delikt.

Scarface: Money. Power. Respect.

Through turn based showdowns and real time combat each player will manage production and distribution of drugs, build up enough cartel strength to overpower adversaries, conquer turf and rule the Miami drug scene.

Shuldham Peard

From the prisoners Ganteaume learned that the route to Egypt might be full of danger to himself, and turned aside to Toulon, whence Peard and his men were at once sent in a cartel to Port Mahon.

Sidney D. Kirkpatrick

Turning the Tide: One Man Against the Medellin Cartel ISBN 978-0-451-40317-9 (with Peter Abrahams), (pub. 1991) a novelized account of a conflict which took place in the Bahamas between drug baron Carlos Lehder and an American professor Richard Novak's investigating hammerhead sharks there.

Strahov Stadium

Ozzfest - May 30, 2002 - (attendance 30,000) Line-up: Škwor, AntiProduct, AstroMetro, Royal Playboy Cartel, Slayer & Ozzy Osbourne

The Council of the Gods

Director General Mauch and his fellow managers, who jokingly call themselves 'the council of the gods', are cleverly using the Second World War to earn a fortune, by supplying the Third Reich and - through their cartel with Standard Oil - the Western Allies.

The Devil's in the Details

Working for a Mexican cartel, Bill reveals himself to be the culprit and along with Corbin (Jake Jacobson) working with him, forces Thomas through an ultimatum to cooperate with a cross-border drug smuggling operation, holding his wife and daughter captive at their home and threatening to kill them.

Vicente Carrillo

Vicente Carrillo Fuentes (born 1962), Mexican drug trafficker, leader of Juárez Cartel

Victor Amuso

The Gambino, Colombo, Genovese and Lucchese families had together created a cartel in 1978, which eventually controlled over $150 million in contracts from the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).

Walloon Rally

Founded on 7 March 1968, the party contested the Belgian general election of 1968 in a cartel with the FDF, a Brussels-based francophone political party, receiving 5.9% of the vote nationally.

Warped Tour Session

Warped Tour Session is a four song acoustic EP by pop-punk band Cartel.

William O. Wooldridge

In Robin Moore's novel Khaki Mafia, a fictional character in a criminal cartel is based on Woolridge in Vietnam.


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